Publish system outcomes and retain case-level decision: Which evidence plan best matches those distinct needs?
Transparency concerns what occurred; explainability concerns how a particular decision was made.
The question
A travel-support system automatically denies some reimbursement requests. Executives want a public account of actions taken and an internal account of how individual denials were produced. Which evidence plan best matches those distinct needs?
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- Retain user complaints and publish training-data categories.Complaints and data categories may inform monitoring, but they do not separately document outcomes and decision processes.
- Publish individual rationales and retain only a system overview.Individual rationales support explainability, but public transparency requires broader information about what the system did.
- Publish model architecture and retain aggregate accuracy results.Architecture and accuracy provide technical context, but neither directly supplies public outcome reporting and case-level decision reasoning.
- Publish system outcomes and retain case-level decision rationales. ✓Published outcomes address what happened, while case-level rationales address how particular decisions were produced for internal review.
The trap
Map “what happened” to transparency and “how this decision arose” to explainability. How to remember it
Transparency concerns what occurred; explainability concerns how a particular decision was made.
How many of these would you get right?
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